Book Talk at Walt Whitman Library: Stokely, A Life

Stokely Carmichael, the charismatic and sometimes controversial activist, stepped onto the pages of history when he called for “Black Power” during a speech one Mississippi night in 1966. Remembered quite often in his role as leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) after now-Congressman John Lewis, Carmichael would stand for the rest of his life at the center of the storm he had unleashed that night.

In Stokely, scholar Peniel E. Joseph presents a groundbreaking biography of Carmichael, using his life as a prism through which to view African-American political struggles in the twentieth century.